Was it you who asked or predicted or wished that Season 6 would just be End-Verse? I keep thinking about how much more awesome that would have been.
I never thought of it that way, but you're right -- it was pretty much the last original thing the show did.
I recently received S5 as a gift and I laughed when I saw that so much of the artwork on the packaging displayed scenes from "The End" (only with Dean and Sam, not Dean and Cas) as if the whole season really did revolve around that post-apocalyptic storyline. It's hilariously misleading -- you've got Dean there in Croatan Kansas City with a fierce, gun-toting Sam now photoshopped in next to him. It sure looks as if someone (besides those of us in fandom) agreed that "The End" was the best thing about the season -- enough to try and make it look as if that was what the show was about. Like I said, misleading, but also very telling.
I watch a lot of other stuff, and almost all of it is wildly better than SPN. But I'm not fannish about anything else, really.
The one thing I've learned about fandom is that the chemistry of it is identical to falling in love -- you can't MAKE it happen. It's something that hits you all at once -- either at first sight, or suddenly when you least expect it. Lord of the Rings was love at first sight for me; with SPN, it took me two years of apathetic, sporadic viewership and then it just hit me like a ton of bricks during a Season 2 summer rerun. I still remember the episode, it was "Folsom Prison Blues." And I still remember the exact moment, it was when Dean got billyclubbed in the guts during that prison cafeteria brawl. Head over heels, from that instant -- didn't ask for it, didn't make it happen, never saw it coming. I find it hard to believe that anything's going to hit me that way again.
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Date: 2011-10-16 02:52 am (UTC)I never thought of it that way, but you're right -- it was pretty much the last original thing the show did.
I recently received S5 as a gift and I laughed when I saw that so much of the artwork on the packaging displayed scenes from "The End" (only with Dean and Sam, not Dean and Cas) as if the whole season really did revolve around that post-apocalyptic storyline. It's hilariously misleading -- you've got Dean there in Croatan Kansas City with a fierce, gun-toting Sam now photoshopped in next to him. It sure looks as if someone (besides those of us in fandom) agreed that "The End" was the best thing about the season -- enough to try and make it look as if that was what the show was about. Like I said, misleading, but also very telling.
I watch a lot of other stuff, and almost all of it is wildly better than SPN. But I'm not fannish about anything else, really.
The one thing I've learned about fandom is that the chemistry of it is identical to falling in love -- you can't MAKE it happen. It's something that hits you all at once -- either at first sight, or suddenly when you least expect it. Lord of the Rings was love at first sight for me; with SPN, it took me two years of apathetic, sporadic viewership and then it just hit me like a ton of bricks during a Season 2 summer rerun. I still remember the episode, it was "Folsom Prison Blues." And I still remember the exact moment, it was when Dean got billyclubbed in the guts during that prison cafeteria brawl. Head over heels, from that instant -- didn't ask for it, didn't make it happen, never saw it coming. I find it hard to believe that anything's going to hit me that way again.